Watch executive producer Gareth Neame and the cast of Downton offer up some playful hints about the show's upcoming guest stars and storylines. "You have to take control of your feelings before they take control of you."

When Season 5 of British costume drama Downton Abbey — which will launch on Sunday, Jan. 4, on PBS's Masterpiece — kicks off, the Crawley family is once again contending with shifting societal tides in the interregnum period in England. As new opportunities arise for the working class, the landed gentry must find new ways of staying afloat. Season 5 of the Julian Fellowes-created drama features a few new faces turning up at the Crawleys' country estate, perhaps to aid them in this quest, as the below video indicates:

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Richard E. Grant (Girls) appears in a multiple-episode story arc as art historian Simon Bricker, who arrives at Downton with a keen appreciation for beauty.

Wait, what?

Violet!

In fact, this sounds *exactly* like something Violet would caution against.

So who is Kuragin? And what exactly does he mean to Violet? Well, you'll have to wait until January to find out. But as executive producer Gareth Neame points out in the above video, Mary (Michelle Dockery) will "discover that Violet herself had a bit of a shady past that has been buried for a very long time."